Atypical chronic lymphocytic inflammation with pontocerebellar perivascular enhancement responsive to steroids (CLIPPERS), primary angiitis of the CNS mimicking CLIPPERS or overlap syndrome? A case report

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 324, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 183-186

  Buttmann, Mathias ^a   Metz, Imke ^b   Brecht, Isabel ^a   Brück, Wolfgang ^b   Warmuth Metz, Monika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Cerebral vasculitis; Differential diagnosis; Encephalomyelitis; Headache; Multiple Sclerosis; Neuroimmunology

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; ETIRACETAM; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ALLERGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BRAIN VASCULITIS; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC INFLAMMATION WITH PONTOCEREBELLAR PERIVASCULAR ENHANCEMENT RESPONSIVE TO STEROIDS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DIPLOPIA; DIZZINESS; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDER; GERMANY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NAUSEA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SARCOIDOSIS;

BRAIN; CEREBELLUM; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIPLOPIA; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LYMPHOCYTES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; PONS; VASCULITIS, CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 84870891818     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: 18785883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2012.10.017     Document Type: Article

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